A Short Course in Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering
Published on 1. July 2006
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-0-7277-3442-6 (ISBN)
Description
"A Short Course in Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering" is unique because it illustrates the importance of state-dependent elastoplastic water characteristic cuves and how to produce them. It describes how to measure anisotropic stiffness, develop state-dependent elastoplastic constitutive modelling as well as conjunctive modelling of rain infiltration, and studies the behaviour of loose fills from unsaturated to saturated states. A major part of the book addresses the hugely challenging geotechnical problem of unsaturated soil slope stability.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7277-3442-6 (9780727734426)
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Content
* Basic physics, phases and stress state variables * Measurement and control of suction * State dependent soil-water characteristics, sepage and flow * Collapse and swelling caused by wetting * Measurement of shear strength * Measurement of shear stiffness * A state-dependent elasto-plastic critical state-based constitutive model * Instrucmentation and performance: A case study * Engineering applications for slope stability problems